Lacon, Illinois
E526821
Lacon, Illinois is a small city in Marshall County that serves as the county seat and lies along the Illinois River within the broader Peoria metropolitan region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lacon, Illinois canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3586489 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lacon, Illinois Context triple: [Peoria metropolitan area, containsTown, Lacon, Illinois]
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A.
Somonauk, Illinois
Somonauk, Illinois is a small village in northern Illinois known for its rural character and location spanning LaSalle and DeKalb counties.
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B.
Wasco, Illinois
Wasco, Illinois is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Kane County known for its rural character and small-town atmosphere.
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C.
Lyndon, Illinois
Lyndon, Illinois is a small village in Whiteside County in northwestern Illinois, known for its rural character and proximity to the Rock River.
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D.
Mendota, Illinois
Mendota, Illinois is a small city in north-central Illinois known historically as a railroad junction and for its annual Sweet Corn Festival.
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E.
Ivesdale, Illinois
Ivesdale, Illinois is a small rural village located in central Illinois within Champaign County.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lacon, Illinois Target entity description: Lacon, Illinois is a small city in Marshall County that serves as the county seat and lies along the Illinois River within the broader Peoria metropolitan region.
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A.
Somonauk, Illinois
Somonauk, Illinois is a small village in northern Illinois known for its rural character and location spanning LaSalle and DeKalb counties.
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B.
Wasco, Illinois
Wasco, Illinois is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Kane County known for its rural character and small-town atmosphere.
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C.
Lyndon, Illinois
Lyndon, Illinois is a small village in Whiteside County in northwestern Illinois, known for its rural character and proximity to the Rock River.
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D.
Mendota, Illinois
Mendota, Illinois is a small city in north-central Illinois known historically as a railroad junction and for its annual Sweet Corn Festival.
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E.
Ivesdale, Illinois
Ivesdale, Illinois is a small rural village located in central Illinois within Champaign County.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | city ⓘ |
| areaCode | 309 ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Marshall County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature | riverfront along the Illinois River ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | mayor–council ⓘ |
| hasRole | administrative center of Marshall County, Illinois ⓘ |
| hasTransportation |
bridge crossing of the Illinois River
ⓘ
highway access via Illinois Route 17 ⓘ |
| incorporatedAsCityIn | 19th century ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Marshall County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInHemisphere |
Northern Hemisphere
ⓘ
Western Hemisphere ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Central Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Chillicothe, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Henry, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Peoria, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Illinois Route 17 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Illinois River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Peoria metropolitan area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Midwestern United States ⓘ
surface form:
United States Midwest
|
| postalCode | 61540 ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTime | Central Daylight Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Lacon, Illinois Description of subject: Lacon, Illinois is a small city in Marshall County that serves as the county seat and lies along the Illinois River within the broader Peoria metropolitan region.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.